Pricing
One price. Unlimited units, booking engine included.
$189 a month runs your property: every screen, every user, as many units as you have, and your own booking page taking direct reservations. Run activities alongside the rooms and it is $36 more.
Accommodation or activities
The complete system for an operator running one kind of operation. What the second plan adds is activities.
- Reservation book, folio and the day's work
- Hosted direct booking page
- Housekeeping and cleaning forecast
- Canadian tax, all 13 provinces
- The full accounting ledger and reporting
$225 a month all in, CAD
The same complete system, with rooms and activities running against one guest database and one ledger.
- The whole PMS plan, and then activities
- Rooms and activities in one reservation
- One folio across both, one tax treatment
- Activity scheduling, capacity and staffing
- A lodge with cabins and a campground is one business here
Card processing through Cardinal Payments carries a 0.5% platform fee on top of Stripe's processing rate. It applies only to cards you run through us: your own terminal, cash, cheque and Interac e-transfer are not ours to charge for.
Starting out
Start your free trial.
Run it on your own property for 60 days, or your first 100 reservations, whichever comes first. Every screen is open, on your own rooms and rates.
We set it up with you, on a call, using your real rooms and rates. At the end you decide, and that is the point at which a price applies.
Start your free trialThe second plan
The Activities module, $36 a month
The same system holding a second kind of thing: sessions, capacity and equipment, on the guest database and the ledger the rooms already use.
- Sold inside the reservation, while you have the guest
- Activities, packages and add-ons are picked on the days of the stay as the booking is taken. Only the days with places left are shown, each says how many, and the days stop at check-out, so everything offered is something the guest can use.
- Charged to the room folio, on its own sub-folio
- An in-house guest's activity posts to the room folio on its own sub-folio, 10421-B beside the lodging on 10421-A, and settles at check-out on the room's guarantee: one payment, two kinds of revenue kept apart.
- Attendance, and what a no-show does to the money
- Every booking is marked arrived or no-show. One panel handles the money either way: retain the charge, waive it, or refund part of it. The booking's own colour says whether a deposit is in, whether it is due on arrival, or whether it is now overdue.
- Revenue from people who never book a room
- A canoe rented to a family from town books and pays on a folio of its own. That is money a rooms-only system has nowhere to put.
- The day's sessions arrive with the day's work
- Activities to prepare arrive in the same task list as arrivals, departures and rooms to turn over. Nobody keeps the afternoon in a second place.
Pricing details
What the monthly price covers
One number for the property, known in January and unchanged by a good July, whether a booking arrives at the desk, through a channel or through your own page.
Card processing is the one thing billed on top of the $189, and only on the cards you run through us. Some systems charge a small amount per reservation instead of a monthly fee, and below a certain volume that is cheaper. Where your volume falls is arithmetic:
Innovation
Six things we made better
Each line is something you can find in the demo. The right-hand column is the category, rather than any one company.
| Cardinal advantage | How it commonly works | |
|---|---|---|
| A price is a price | Type one nightly rate on the room type. That is the whole setup. Rate plans are marked optional and you can skip them. | A price commonly has to be built as a plan first, with rules, dates and a parent rate to derive from, before the room can sell. |
| One room priced differently | Open the type and price a single unit inside it. | The price belongs to the type, so one cabin worth more means a second type, with its own rates, photographs and channel mappings. |
| The yearly increase | One control. Percent or dollars, across all upcoming dates or a season you pick. It says which before you press Apply, and tells you when rates last changed. | Commonly plan by plan, or a bulk tool inside a revenue module sold on top of the system. |
| A stay nobody closed | A no-show cancels itself a day past departure, keeps the payment and reverses the charges in the ledger. A guest never checked out is checked out at 24 hours, balance untouched. | It stays open in the book until somebody finds it, and what it was doing to the numbers is found at the same time. |
| A guest who turns up late | One question: waive the nights that passed, or keep the charge. It moves the arrival and credits the nights itself. | Commonly a cancellation and a rebooking, then a manual adjustment somebody has to remember. |
| Every confirmation is a sentence you can read out loud | “Raise every room rate by +3% on all upcoming dates?” Fifty-four places ask before they act, through one panel. | Commonly a confirmation naming the operation, which tells you the one thing you already knew. |
What is in it
Everything the system holds
The screen names are the product's own, so you can open the demo and find them in the same order. Every screen below comes with both plans. The two tagged ones are what the second plan adds.
Control Deck
The day, and what to do next
- Today's arrivals, departures and stays in house
- The next action on each one, with the reason it is next
- Occupancy, ADR, RevPAR and revenue for today, read live off the board
- Routines that appear when they are due and expire when they are not
Guest Rooms
Calendar · list
- Lodging reservations, taken at the desk or arriving from your booking page
- The board: every unit, every night, on one screen
- The same reservations as a list you can sort, filter and search
- The folio: charges, payments, taxes and the balance
- Group bookings, and one folio split between several payers
Activities
PMS + ActivitiesCalendar · list
- Activity reservations, sold on their own or onto a stay
- The activity board, and the same day as a list
- The day view, session by session, with who is on each one
Shop
Products · daily charges
- Sell to a stay or to a walk-in
- The day's charges, each posted to the right folio
Housekeeping
Cleaning + staff forecast
- Today's clean list, unit by unit, with what changed overnight
- The staffing forecast, in cleaning minutes rather than in rooms
- Out of order, and a unit that comes back from maintenance dirty
Analytics & Database
KPIs · forecast · ledger · insights
- The append-only ledger, and the four tax reports off it
- Insights that open the filtered screen they are about
- The guest database, searchable across both kinds of booking
- Your data out, self-serve, whenever you want it
Rooms & Rates
Types · units · pricing
- Divisions, room types and the units inside them
- One base nightly rate, and a price on a single unit if you want one
- Rate plans for seasons, length of stay and corporate rates
- The quick rate increase, across every type at once
Activity Programming
PMS + ActivitiesModels · capacity · pricing
- Three scheduling models: inventory, slots and hours
- Capacity, staffing and what each session costs
Shop Configuration
Products · packages · add-ons
- Products, priced by the unit that fits them
- Packages, on four pricing bases
- Add-ons a guest can put on a booking themselves
Channels & Bookings
OTAs · booking widget
- Your own booking page, hosted, in French and English
- The same booking widget embedded on your own website
- Calendar sync with the booking sites, two ways
- Channel settings, commission and how the money arrives
In both plans, from day one
- Canadian tax across all 13 provinces and territories
- French and English, on the guest page and on your staff's screens
- Your guest data resident in Canada
- Every update, as it ships
Included, at every size
Five lines that stay at zero
These hold for as long as you are a customer.
- $0Per room, site or unit
- Most systems bill by unit count. Here, adding a cabin costs nothing in software.
- 0%Commission on direct bookings
- The bookings you earn yourself stay yours, in full.
- $0Per person at the desk
- One price for the property, however many people use it, summer students included.
- $0Setup, onboarding and switching
- Switching is included: we bring your guests and reservations across with you, on a call, with your real rooms and rates.
- $0To leave, with everything
- Guests, reservations and the full ledger as CSV, plus a JSON backup and every closed month. Self-serve, whenever you want it.
Eight rooms or eighty, all five are the same number.
See it first
Watch a working day, start to finish.
Arrivals, the folio, housekeeping and the last invoice, on the real screens. It is easier to price something you have already seen running.